The Resource Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000, Anton Blok
Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000, Anton Blok
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- Summary
- In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through a collective biography of some ninety radical innovators, including Erasmus, Spinoza, Newton, Bach, Sade, Darwin, Melville, Mendel, Cézanne, Curie, Brâncusi, Einstein, Wittgenstein, Keynes, and Goodall, Blok shows how a significant proportion in fact benefited from social exclusion. Beethoven s increasing deafness isolated him from his friends, creating more time for composing and experimenting, while Darwin s chronic illness gave him an excuse to avoid social gatherings and get on with his work. Adversity took various forms, including illegitimate birth, early parental loss, conflict with parents, bankruptcy, chronic illness, physical deficiencies, neurological and genetic disorders, minority status, peripheral origins, poverty, exile, and detention. Blok argues, however, that all these misfortunes had the same effect: alienation from mainstream society. As outsiders, innovators could question conventional beliefs and practices. With little to lose, they could take chances and exploit opportunities. With governments, universities and industry all emphasizing the importance of investing in innovation, typically understood to mean planned and focussed research teams, this book runs counter to conventional wisdom. For far more often, radical innovation in science and art is entirely unscripted, resulting from trial and error by individuals ready to take risks, fail, and start again. --
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- eng
- dut
- eng
- Edition
- English edition.
- Extent
- x, 235 pages
- Contents
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- The margins as a place of innovation
- Sibling rivalry
- Heuristic exceptions
- Adversity
- Chance and necessity
- Conclusions
- Isbn
- 9781509505524
- Label
- Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000
- Title
- Radical innovators
- Title remainder
- the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000
- Statement of responsibility
- Anton Blok
- Title variation
- Blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000
- Language
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- eng
- dut
- eng
- Summary
- In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through a collective biography of some ninety radical innovators, including Erasmus, Spinoza, Newton, Bach, Sade, Darwin, Melville, Mendel, Cézanne, Curie, Brâncusi, Einstein, Wittgenstein, Keynes, and Goodall, Blok shows how a significant proportion in fact benefited from social exclusion. Beethoven s increasing deafness isolated him from his friends, creating more time for composing and experimenting, while Darwin s chronic illness gave him an excuse to avoid social gatherings and get on with his work. Adversity took various forms, including illegitimate birth, early parental loss, conflict with parents, bankruptcy, chronic illness, physical deficiencies, neurological and genetic disorders, minority status, peripheral origins, poverty, exile, and detention. Blok argues, however, that all these misfortunes had the same effect: alienation from mainstream society. As outsiders, innovators could question conventional beliefs and practices. With little to lose, they could take chances and exploit opportunities. With governments, universities and industry all emphasizing the importance of investing in innovation, typically understood to mean planned and focussed research teams, this book runs counter to conventional wisdom. For far more often, radical innovation in science and art is entirely unscripted, resulting from trial and error by individuals ready to take risks, fail, and start again. --
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- Blok, Anton
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- Science
- Art
- Anthropology
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- Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000, Anton Blok
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and indexes
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- The margins as a place of innovation -- Sibling rivalry -- Heuristic exceptions -- Adversity -- Chance and necessity -- Conclusions
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- ocn965534597
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- English edition.
- Extent
- x, 235 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509505524
- Lccn
- 2016016765
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- (OCoLC)965534597
- Label
- Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000, Anton Blok
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The margins as a place of innovation -- Sibling rivalry -- Heuristic exceptions -- Adversity -- Chance and necessity -- Conclusions
- Control code
- ocn965534597
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- English edition.
- Extent
- x, 235 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509505524
- Lccn
- 2016016765
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- (OCoLC)965534597
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